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A Simple Model of Optimal Deterrence and Incapacitation

Shavell, Steven - 2014

The deterrence of crime and its reduction through incapacitation are studied in a simple multiperiod model of crime and law enforcement. Optimal imprisonment sanctions and the optimal probability of sanctions are determined. A point of emphasis is that the incapacitation of individuals is often...

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Gefängnis, Therapie und Bewährung : eine ökonomische Analyse

Meier, Volker - In: Kriminalität, Ökonomie und europäischer Sozialstaat …, (pp. 187-214). 2003

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Reducing Prison Costs Through Prison Labour : A Law and Economics Approach

Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Elena - 2016

The costs of imprisonment is a common concern to many European countries. However, in some cases this is an inevitable form of punishment, thus may not be substituted by less costly sanctions. Improving prison labour in European prisons has the potential to decrease the costs of incarceration....

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Monstering Strasbourg Over Prisoner Voting Rights

Murray, C. R. G. - 2017

From being subject to almost no political or legal debate in the UK for decades prisoner voting has, since the European Court of Human Rights' judgment in Hirst v. United Kingdom, become an issue which defines the UK's relationship with the Council of Europe and which symbolises the prevailing...

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Corruption and Optimal Law Enforcement

Polinsky, A. Mitchell; Shavell, Steven - 2000

We analyze corruption in law enforcement: the payment of bribes to enforcement agents, threats to frame innocent individuals in order to extort money from them, and the actual framing of innocent individuals. Bribery, extortion, and framing reduce deterrence and are thus worth discouraging....

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Prison Vouchers

Volokh, Alexander - 2014

School vouchers have been proposed as a way to bypass the political pathologies of school reform and improve school quality by transforming students and parents into consumers. What if we did the same for prisons - what if convicted criminals could choose their prison rather than being assigned...

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Religious Sincerity and Imperfection : Can Lapsing Prisoners Recover Under RFRA and RLUIPA?

Brady, Kevin Lee - 2012

Within the last two decades, Congress has passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). These Acts prevent federal and state officials from imposing a "substantial burden" on prisoners’ religious exercise, unless the...

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Retributive and Corrective Justice, Criminal and Private Law

Wood, David Alan Russell - 2010

retributive and distributive justice in criminal law theory. Likewise, there is considerable discussion of the relation between … corrective and distributive justice in private law theory. However, there is comparatively little discussion of the relation … between retributive justice and corrective justice, whether in criminal law theory, private law theory, or legal theory …

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The Parable of the Prisoners

Guerra-Pujol, F. E. - 2013

Of the 78 possible strategic games in two-person game theory, one has acquired the most attention, and the most … Prisoners,” is not only the most famous formal model of conflict and cooperation in the mathematical theory of games; it has …

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The Pasta Wars : A Prisoner's Dilemma Simulation-Game

Ebner, Noam; Winkler, Yifat - 2021

The PASTA WARS is a four-party negotiation/conflict simulation-game, in which participants must decide recurrently whether to adopt a cooperative stance or a competitive strategy towards one another. Participants are formed into four groups, each of which manages a flour mill that is attempting...

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